Teaching Big Sur | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Introduction to the Book Big Sur was published in 1962 and chronicles the experiences of Jack Kerouac as he struggles against his fame as an author and pioneer of the Beat Generation, and battles alcoholism and madness-- a disease which would eventually take his life seven years later. Today's lesson gives students an overview of the novel and introduces the Beat Generation's subjects, themes, and stylistic...
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